Cal extends hoops coach Madsen through 2030
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- Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Author Basketball recruiting expert.
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- Graduate of University of Delaware.Mar 12, 2024, 04:08 PM ET Cal coach Mark Madsen has actually agreed a two-year agreement extension through the 2029-30 season, director of athletics Jim Knowlton announced Tuesday Madsen simply finished his very first year with the Golden Bears, enhancing their Pac-12 record from 2-18 in 2022-23 to 9-11 this season. They completed tied for sixth in the Pac-12, marking their best surface in the league given that 2016-17. After losing their very first 3 games in Pac-12 play,
Cal won nine of its next 14 games, including victories over potential NCAA competition groups Colorado and Washington State.”I’m fired up every day to be the head coach at Cal, and consider myself extremely lucky to work along with an outstanding group of student-athletes, coaches, personnel and administrators who share the exact same unrelenting enthusiasm for success,”Madsen said in a declaration.” I’m grateful to Jim Knowlton and our administration for their continuous self-confidence in what we’re building in Berkeley. “Our goal is to win championships and pursue success, and our entire basketball program will continue to perform on that vision with the Cal neighborhood behind us. There are fantastic things ahead in Bear Territory, and we’re just beginning.”The Golden Bears had success recruiting the transfer website last spring, with the group’s leading 4 scorers all in
their first season in Berkeley. Jaylon Tyson (19.6 PPG)and Fardaws Aimaq (14.7 PPG, 11.0 RPG )were two of the more productive transfers in the Pac-12. The Golden Bears face Stanford on Wednesday in the preliminary of the Pac-12 tournament.Cal being proactive with Madsen’s contract comes as speculation swirls around the status of Stanford coach Jerod Haase. Madsen played at Stanford from 1996-2000, making
All-America honors and leading the Cardinal to a Final Four in 1998, and also spent a season in Palo Alto as an assistant on Johnny Dawkins’ staff in 2012-13. He was thought about the preferred to be the next coach at Stanford if Haase left last spring, however the job didn’t open and longtime competing Cal stroked in to work with Madsen.Madsen had actually been the head coach at Utah Valley for four seasons before reaching Cal, leading the Wolverines to WAC regular-season titles in 2021 and 2023.